30 goods; many of them thenfled inland, leaving the city, and once it had been destroyed and the Portuguese had left, they settled in it again and now is it prosperous as it used to be. Mogadishu Going further along the coast towards the Red Sea, one comes to a large Mouros town called Mogadishu, which a Mouros king reigns over. This is an important trading place for many different goods, which is why many ships from the great kingdom of Cambay come here, with a large number of different kinds of cloths and many other goods and spices and they also come from Aden, bringing a lot of gold, ivory, beeswax and many other things that they trade with. There is a lot of meat; wheat; barley; horses, and many fruits in this land, thus it is a very rich place; they speak Arabic, they are black and brown men; some are white; they have few weapons, however, they use poisoned arrows to defend themselves from their enemies. Hafun Past this place and town of Mogadishu and heading along the coast, there is a Mouros village called Hafun, where there is a lot of meat and provisions (as I said it is a small place) with little trade, and it does not have a harbour. Cape Guardafui Heading further along the coast past the village of Hafun, lies Cape Guardafui, where the coast bends again towards the Red Sea; it lies at the mouth of the Straits of Mecca, so that all the ships coming from India and the Kingdom of Cambay, Chaul, Dabhol, Bhatkal, Malabar, the whole of the Bengal coast; Ceylon; Malacca; Sumatra and Pegu,
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